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Charity Davis Ceasar Broady (1802-1899) was an American abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, suffragist and nurse of African-American and Native American descent. Broady was born in Kentucky to John Isaac Davis, a former slave, and an indigenous woman of Cherokee heritage. Little is known of Charity’s mother except that she died shortly after Charity was born due to smallpox. To insure Charity’s freedom, Isaac Davis journeyed with his family across the Ohio River and settled on the banks of the Miami Valley in what would become the city of Dayton, Ohio, around 1802 or 1803.

While in her twenties, Broady became a conductor in the Underground Railroad. She worked with Sojourner Truth under the threat of criminal prosecution to guarantee safe passage of fugitive slaves to Canada. . Known as the "Colored nurse" or "Negro nurse," Charity trained and worked with Dr. Hibbert Jewett and abolitionist Major Luther B. Bruen. Broady is listed among the attendees at the Ohio Women's Right Convention in Akron, Ohio where Truth delivered the famed “Ain't I A Woman?" speech.